The Old English Peep Show
1969
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3.50
Average Rating
222
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Americans may have Colonial Williamsburg, but for the Brits, there's Old England, an elaborate theme park that pays homage to a similarly imaginary glorious past. At Old England, the woods are lush with game-birds and round every corner is a pink-cheeked, mob-capped maid bobbing a curtsey. It's no wonder the tourists are happy to buy tickets. Lately, though, there's been a fly in the ointment. The two doddering old war-heroes who own the estate have slipped from charmingly eccentric to disturbingly nuts, and one of the servants has committed suicide. What Inspector Jimmy Pibble finds beneath the daydream is not exactly a green and pleasant land.
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
164
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Author
Peter Dickinson
Author · 58 books
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL was a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Peter Dickinson lived in Hampshire with his second wife, author Robin McKinley. He wrote more than fifty novels for adults and young readers. He won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award twice, and his novel The Blue Hawk won The Guardian Award in 1975.
